From phvacheyrout at capucine.net  Wed Apr  1 14:04:17 2009
From: phvacheyrout at capucine.net (Philippe Vacheyrout)
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:04:17 +0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Invitation : SIANA 2009
In-Reply-To: <1991-23-D53F1A655282D71405960E0FD8D65EAC@mailstock.com>
References: <1991-23-D53F1A655282D71405960E0FD8D65EAC@mailstock.com>
Message-ID: <F6232CFEDBE849E381E6DA4EA242616E@PCdecapucine>

Les ?tats g?n?raux de l'identit? num?rique pr?vus le 27 avril 09 au s?nat sont exceptionnellement avanc?s au 2 avril 09, en virtuel, ? l'occasion du G20.

Conform?ment aux recommandations des assises du num?rique de sensibiliser les femmes et les hommes politiques ? l'importance de l'innovation en p?riode de crise, il ?tait imp?ratif de porter ? la connaissance des membres du G20 " l'innovation du si?cle " qui permet a chacun de disposer de son identit? par lui m?me  c'est cette ma?trise de l'identit? num?rique dont s'est pr?occup? l'association Capucine.net 

Ce dispositif pourrait, entre autre, permettre d'?quilibrer une ?conomie de march? international, qui a conduit ? la d?fiance et par cons?quent ? la crise actuelle, faute de r?gulation, malgr? les lois, les normes et les r?glementations.

En effet cr?ation d'une ?conomie de services dans un climat de confiance, s'appuyant sur des "standards techniques et des normes sociales", contribuerait ? une libert? d'usage des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication, associ?e ? l'appel d'Edgar Morin pour les biens communs. 
Les deux ?conomies en ligne (Marche et Services) seraient alors r?gul?es par les autorit?s de certifications qui constitueraient, dans ces domaines, un d?but de gouvernance mondiale.

C'est pourquoi tout au long de la journ?e du 2 Avril 09 des conf?rences (de presse aussi) seront organis?es autour de l'Identit? num?rique, de la propri?t? intellectuelle et de la protection des donn?es personnelles. Ce sera de d?monstrations en ligne de d?mat?rialisation de documents ? valeur probante, (Carte d'identit?, Carte de sant?, documents administratifs, juridiques etc .) au moyen d'une Carte Verte Universelle labellis?e Capucine. 

Nous mat?rialisons cette action sur le metaverse Second Life ou nous vous invitons ? nous rejoindre tout cette journ?e du 2 avril. 

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Isles%20Marquises/142/149/645

laFayette Beaumont 

Pour ceux qui ne sont pas familiaris?s, 

Voici les ?l?ments pour une premi?re approche de Second Life

1 - Vous rendre sur Second Life http://fr.secondlife.com/ 

2 - V?rifier la configuration requise http://secondlife.com/support/sysreqs.php?lang=fr

3 - T?l?charger le logiciel http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php

4 - Cr?er un avatar (M'inscrire, en haut a droite de la page d'accueil) https://join.secondlife.com/index.php?lang=fr-FR

5 - Apr?s avoir appris les premiers rudiments sur Gaia, vous rendre ? l'adresse suivante http://slurl.com/secondlife/Laetitia/64/126/23

Vous pouvez aussi prendre un rendez vous t?l?phonique pour une approche rapide et guid?e au 06 86 58 14 31





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  Chers confr?res, chers amis,

   

   

  C'est avec plaisir que je vous invite ? nous rejoindre pour l'?dition 2009 de SIANA ? Evry. 

  Du 23 au 28 mars c'est sous le th?me de l'imaginaire des technologies que SIANA propose aux diff?rents acteurs du num?rique de confronter leurs id?es et rencontrer le grand public ? travers tout ? la fois des expositions d'ouvres d'art num?rique, une programmation de spectacles ainsi que plusieurs jours de conf?rences et de workshops autour des technologies num?riques.

  Ces propositions s'adressent autant aux chercheurs, aux ?tudiants, aux artistes qu'au plus large public. R?v?lateur de cette volont? de croisement, Siana se d?roule dans diff?rents lieux d'Evry : T?l?com & Management SudParis, le Th??tre de l'Agora, sc?ne nationale d'Evry et de l'Essonne ainsi que la Mairie d'Evry.

  Je serais particuli?rement heureux de vous accueillir le lundi 23 mars ? partir de 19h au th??tre de l'Agora pour la soir?e d'ouverture de SIANA durant laquelle se produira  Nabaz'mob, le d?sormais c?l?bre orchestre compos? de 100 lapins Nabaztag dirig?s par J.J Birg? et A.Schmitt. (Il est ?galement possible de venir d?s 17h pour une visite guid?e de l'exposition)

  Afin de vous recevoir dans les meilleures conditions, nous vous invitons ? r?server aupr?s de l'Accueil billetterie du Th??tre de l'Agora, sc?ne nationale d'Evry et de l'Essonne au 01 60 91 65 65 du mardi au samedi de 14h ? 19h et le mercredi d?s 13h, ou en vous rendant sur le site de SIANA : www.siana-evry.fr 

   Cordialement votre, 
  Bruno Salgues, pr?sident de SIANA

   









  Dear friends,

   

   

  It is with great joy that I would like to invite you to join us for SIANA's 2009 edition in Evry.

  From the 23d until the 28th of March SIANA proposes various actors from the digital domain to meet round the theme of 'the imaginary of technologies'. SIANA offers these actors a place to meet a large audience, an opportunity to confront their ideas with the public by means of expositions of digital art pieces, a programme of theatrical performances and by offering several days of conferences and digital technology workshops.

  Researchers, students, artists as well as the large audience are incited to participate. Siana, invites all of these to meet eachother at three different places  in Evry : T?l?com & Management SudParis, Th??tre de l'Agora ; National Theatre of Evry and Essonne as well as the city of Evry (and its parish hall).

  I would be very honoured and happy to welcome you on Monday the 23d of March at 19 :00 at th??tre de l'Agora for the opening ceremony of SIANA. The evening will be celebrated with a performance  of the henceforth renown Nabaz'mob orchestra, composed of 100 rabbits directed by J.J Birg? and A.Schmitt. (You are  also invited to join us at 17 :00 for a guided visit of the exposition)

  In order to be able to welcome you in the best conditions we kindly suggest you to contact the reception of Th??tre de l'Agora, National Theatre of Evry and Essonne at 01 60 91 65 65 from Tuesday till Saturday from14 :00-19 :00 and on Wednesdays from 13 :00. You could also make your reservation via : www.siana-evry.fr 

   Kind regards, 
  Bruno Salgues, president of SIANA







  Pour vous d?sabonner : info at siana-evry.fr

   


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From cafec3m at yahoo.fr  Wed Apr  1 15:17:17 2009
From: cafec3m at yahoo.fr (CAFEC)
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:17:17 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Invitation : SIANA 2009
In-Reply-To: <F6232CFEDBE849E381E6DA4EA242616E@PCdecapucine>
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	<F6232CFEDBE849E381E6DA4EA242616E@PCdecapucine>
Message-ID: <ecb172de0904010717r368dac09n769660a98df47df1@mail.gmail.com>

Bonsoir Philippe,

juste une proposition. Nous souhaiterions faire beneficier les congolais de
la RD Congo ce type d'appropriation de la technologie numerique.
Serait-il possible de solliciter votre svoir technique et technologique pour
l'organisation des formations de ce genre en RD Congo?

Baudouin

2009/4/1, Philippe Vacheyrout <phvacheyrout at capucine.net>:
>
> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
> Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
> Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of
> this message!
> _______________________________________
>
>
>  Les
> ?tats g?n?raux de l?identit? num?rique <http://www.prodoper.fr/> pr?vus le
> 27 avril 09 au s?nat sont exceptionnellement avanc?s au 2 avril 09, en
> virtuel, ? l?occasion du G20.
>
> Conform?ment aux recommandations des assises du num?rique de sensibiliser
> les femmes et les hommes politiques ? l?importance de l?innovation en
> p?riode de crise, il ?tait imp?ratif de porter ? la connaissance des membres
> du G20 " l?innovation du si?cle " qui permet a chacun de disposer de son
> identit? par lui m?me  c?est cette ma?trise de l?identit? num?rique dont
> s?est pr?occup? l?association
> Capucine.net <http://www.capucine.net/>
>
> Ce dispositif pourrait, entre autre, permettre d??quilibrer une ?conomie de
> march? international, qui a conduit ? la d?fiance et par cons?quent ? la
> crise actuelle, faute de r?gulation, malgr? les lois, les normes et les
> r?glementations.
>
> En effet cr?ation d?une ?conomie de services dans un climat de confiance,
> s'appuyant sur des "standards techniques et des normes sociales",
> contribuerait ? une libert? d?usage des Technologies de l?Information et de
> la Communication, associ?e ? l?appel d?Edgar Morin pour les
> biens communs<http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5fc3a_appel-dedgar-morin-pour-les-biens-c_webcam>
> .
> Les deux ?conomies en ligne (Marche et Services) seraient alors r?gul?es
> par les autorit?s de certifications qui constitueraient, dans ces domaines,
> un d?but de gouvernance mondiale.
>
> C?est pourquoi tout au long de la journ?e du 2 Avril 09 des conf?rences (de
> presse aussi) seront organis?es autour de l?Identit? num?rique, de la
> propri?t? intellectuelle et de la protection des donn?es personnelles. Ce
> sera de d?monstrations en ligne de d?mat?rialisation de documents ? valeur
> probante, (Carte d?identit?, Carte de sant?, documents administratifs,
> juridiques etc .) au moyen d?une Carte Verte Universelle labellis?e
> Capucine.
>
> Nous mat?rialisons cette action sur le metaverse Second Life ou nous vous
> invitons ? nous rejoindre tout cette journ?e du 2 avril.
>
> http://slurl.com/secondlife/Isles%20Marquises/142/149/645<http://slurl.com/secondlife/Isles%20Marquises/147/143/645>
>
> laFayette Beaumont
>
> Pour ceux qui ne sont pas familiaris?s,
>
> Voici les ?l?ments pour une premi?re approche de Second Life
>
> 1 - Vous rendre sur Second Life
> http://fr.secondlife.com/
>
> 2 - V?rifier la configuration requise
> http://secondlife.com/support/sysreqs.php?lang=fr
>
> 3 - T?l?charger le logiciel
> http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php
>
> 4 - Cr?er un avatar (M'inscrire, en haut a droite de la page d'accueil)
> https://join.secondlife.com/index.php?lang=fr-FR
>
> 5 - Apr?s avoir appris les premiers rudiments sur
> Gaia <http://slurl.com/secondlife/Gaia/141/119/43>, vous rendre ?
> l'adresse suivante http://slurl.com/secondlife/Laetitia/64/126/23
>
> Vous pouvez aussi prendre un rendez vous t?l?phonique pour une approche
> rapide et guid?e au 06 86 58 14 31
>
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* SIANA : Salgues <bruno.salgues at it-sudparis.eu>
> *To:* plenary at wsis-cs.org
> *Sent:* Monday, March 16, 2009 11:24 AM
> *Subject:* [WSIS CS-Plenary] Invitation : SIANA 2009
>
> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
> Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
> Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of
> this message!
> _______________________________________
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> English after
>
>
>
>
>
> Chers confr?res, chers amis,
>
>
>
>
>
> C'est avec plaisir que je vous invite ? nous rejoindre pour l??dition 2009
> de SIANA ? Evry.
>
> Du 23 au 28 mars c?est sous le th?me de *l?imaginaire des technologies*que SIANA propose aux diff?rents acteurs du num?rique de confronter leurs
> id?es et rencontrer le grand public ? travers tout ? la fois des expositions
> d??uvres d?art num?rique, une programmation de spectacles ainsi que
> plusieurs jours de conf?rences et de workshops autour des technologies
> num?riques.
>
> Ces propositions s?adressent autant aux chercheurs, aux ?tudiants, aux
> artistes qu?au plus large public. R?v?lateur de cette volont? de croisement,
> Siana se d?roule dans diff?rents lieux d?Evry : T?l?com & Management
> SudParis, le Th??tre de l?Agora, sc?ne nationale d?Evry et de l?Essonne
> ainsi que la Mairie d?Evry.
>
> Je serais particuli?rement heureux de vous accueillir le lundi 23 mars ?
> partir de 19h au th??tre de l?Agora pour la soir?e d?ouverture de SIANA
> durant laquelle se produira  Nabaz?mob, le d?sormais c?l?bre orchestre
> compos? de 100 lapins Nabaztag dirig?s par J.J Birg? et A.Schmitt. (Il est
> ?galement possible de venir d?s 17h pour une visite guid?e de l?exposition)
>
> Afin de vous recevoir dans les meilleures conditions, nous vous invitons ?
> r?server aupr?s de l?Accueil billetterie du Th??tre de l?Agora, sc?ne
> nationale d?Evry et de l?Essonne au 01 60 91 65 65 du mardi au samedi de 14h
> ? 19h et le mercredi d?s 13h, ou en vous rendant sur le site de SIANA :
> www.siana-evry.fr<http://tk3.sbn05.com/sy/ev?3&1991-14&0&1T8aZVKC1xQFlg4P2NZerA>
>
>  Cordialement votre,
> Bruno Salgues, pr?sident de SIANA
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear friends,
>
>
>
>
>
> It is with great joy that I would like to invite you to join us for SIANA?s
> 2009 edition in Evry.
>
> From the 23d until the 28th of March SIANA proposes various actors from
> the digital domain to meet round the theme of ?the imaginary of
> technologies?. SIANA offers these actors a place to meet a large audience,
> an opportunity to confront their ideas with the public by means of
> expositions of digital art pieces, a programme of theatrical performances
> and by offering several days of conferences and digital technology
> workshops.
>
> Researchers, students, artists as well as the large audience are incited to
> participate. Siana, invites all of these to meet eachother at three
> different places  in Evry : T?l?com & Management SudParis, Th??tre de
> l?Agora ; National Theatre of Evry and Essonne as well as the city of Evry
> (and its parish hall).
>
> I would be very honoured and happy to welcome you on Monday the 23d of
> March at 19 :00 at th??tre de l?Agora for the opening ceremony of SIANA. The
> evening will be celebrated with a performance  of the henceforth renown
> Nabaz?mob orchestra, composed of 100 rabbits directed by J.J Birg? and
> A.Schmitt. (You are  also invited to join us at 17 :00 for a guided visit
> of the exposition)
>
> In order to be able to welcome you in the best conditions we kindly suggest
> you to contact the reception of Th??tre de l?Agora, National Theatre of Evry
> and Essonne at 01 60 91 65 65 from Tuesday till Saturday from14 :00-19 :00
> and on Wednesdays from 13 :00. You could also make your reservation via :
> www.siana-evry.fr<http://tk3.sbn05.com/sy/ev?3&1991-14&0&1T8aZVKC1xQFlg4P2NZerA>
>
>  Kind regards,
> Bruno Salgues, president of SIANA
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Pour vous d?sabonner : info at siana-evry.fr<http://tk3.sbn05.com/sy/ub?2&1991-14&1&6&bruno.salgues at gmail.com&fr&1T8aZVKC1xQFlg4P2NZerA&plenary at wsis-cs.org>
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From Bill.McIver at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca  Wed Apr  1 19:43:52 2009
From: Bill.McIver at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Bill McIver)
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:43:52 -0300
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Submission Deadline Extended -- Congress 2009 -
	E-Government Track
Message-ID: <49D3B5E8.7060708@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>

** The paper submission deadline has been extended to April 15th, 2009. **


Call For Papers: E-Government Theme

2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of
e-Business (Congress 2009) http://www.unb.ca/pstnet/congress2009/

August 25 ? 27, 2009, Saint John,New Brunswick, Canada


We are pleased to announce that the annual World Congress on the
Management of e-Business conference organized by McMaster University?s
eBusiness Research Centre (MeRC) and the annual Privacy, Security and
Trust conference (PST) organized by the University of New Brunswick
(UNB) in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada
Institute for Information Technology (NRC-IIT) are coming together in
2009. This joint event will operate as the 2009 World Congress on
Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business and the
conference will take place August 25 ? 27, 2009, in Saint John, New
Brunswick, Canada.

E-Government Theme

The roles of E-Government include, among its various definitions, the
application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to the
operation of government, including, but not limited to, its civil,
political, and administrative aspects. Priority topics for this theme
for 2009 are the following:

Civic intelligence
Internet Governance
Disability issues
Support for independent living and governance for an aging population
Open standards for e-Government
Radio, television, and telecommunications
New technologies for inclusion in governance
Human-computer interaction issues
Assistive technologies
Privacy
Implementations
Technologies to support and analyse policy-making
E-Government technology and research roadmaps
Next-generation technologies to support public services

The themes for this track are not limited to the above. We welcome
high-quality papers on other topics related to E-Government.

Paper Submission

High-quality papers not under review or previously accepted or published
elsewhere are solicited. There will be Best Paper and Best Student Paper
awards. Paper submissions should be in the IEEE format, with the first
page bearing authors? affiliations, names and contact details. Accepted
papers will be published in joint proceedings by IEEE in hard copy and
online. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the
International Journal of Electronic Business (IJEB).

E-Government Theme Chair

William McIver, Jr., National Research Council Canada,
Bill.McIver at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

E-Government Theme Program Committee

Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK
Athman Bouguettaya, CSIRO, Australia
Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto, Canada
Divina Frau-Meigs, University of Paris 3-Sorbonne, France
Andrew Gaudes, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Michael Gurstein, CommunityInformatics.net, Canada
Hans Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Zaki Malik, Virginia Tech, USA
Alex Marland, Memorial University, Canada
Aldo de Moor, CommunitySense, The Netherlands
Haidar Moukdad, Dalhousie University, Canada
Theresa A. Pardo, Center for Technology in Government / University at
Albany, USA
Mamadou Tadiou Kon?, Laval University , Canada
Elaine Toms, Dalhousie University, Canada
Qi Yu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Important Dates

April 15, 2009 Research Paper Submission Deadline *** New Deadline ***
June 5, 2009 Research Paper Notification of Acceptance
June 15, 2009 Practitioner Paper Submission Deadline
July 3, 2009 Final Research Manuscript Due

General Co-Chairs

Dr. Khaled Hassanein, McMaster eBusiness Research Centre, Canada
Dr. Mark McIntyre, DRDC Atlantic/RDDC Atlantique, Canada

Honorary Conference Chair

Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada

http://www.unb.ca/pstnet/congress2009




-- 
William McIver, Jr, PhD (Bill)
Senior Research Officer, National Research Council Canada
Adjunct Professor, University of New Brunswick
Bill.McIver at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca  / +1 (506) 444-0387







From Bill.McIver at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca  Wed Apr  8 13:01:11 2009
From: Bill.McIver at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Bill McIver)
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:01:11 -0300
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Resources on Deep Packet Inspection
Message-ID: <49DC9207.4020609@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>


The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
has created a Web site with resources about
Deep Packet Inspection.

http://dpi.priv.gc.ca/


WJM

-- 
William McIver, Jr, PhD (Bill)        
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Adjunct Professor, University of New Brunswick
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From christoph.dietz at CAMECO.ORG  Wed Apr  8 13:03:10 2009
From: christoph.dietz at CAMECO.ORG (Christoph Dietz)
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:03:10 +0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Antw: Resources on Deep Packet Inspection	(Out of
	office)
Message-ID: <s9dcaec1.049@gwweb.cameco.org>

Buenos d?as!
Hasta el 20 de abril no estar? en la la oficina.

Guten Tag! 
Bis zum 20. April bin ich nicht im B?ro erreichbar.

Hello!
I am out of office before April 20.

Christoph Dietz
CAMECO

From pimienta at funredes.org  Mon Apr 13 22:41:03 2009
From: pimienta at funredes.org (Daniel Pimienta)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:41:03 -0400
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of disappearing:
 action required
Message-ID: <200904132145.n3DLj6iX011200@funredes.org>

Dear colleagues,

I shall report on the critical situation of the Digital Solidarity 
Fund (DSF) in my quality of Latin America & Caribbbean civil society 
member of the Board. I wish to report in the WSIS civil society 
plenary list as well as in G at ID discussion list, in the hope to 
trigger some positive dynamics in both communities (and I am also 
informing the DSF Board of that initiative).

The last couple of months have been of acute crisis after a change in 
the DSF Presidency and coordinated complains from the new DSF 
President and the President of Senegal (speaking as "historical 
father") on General Secretary management: basically they do not trust 
the 1% principle could be effective and wish a centering and hosting 
of the DSF on Africa, as an ICT4D project management organization.

On November 25th a stormy General Assembly was held in Lyon (France) 
and was unable to reach consensus on further steps. An extraordinary 
Assembly was then scheduled in Bamako, January 27th, 2009. More 
confused than stormy this Assembly decided that a strategical and 
finance independant audit shall be organized and its results 
presented to a last extraordinary Assembly to be scheduled prior to 
May 27th. This last Assembly would finally decide on the proposition 
of the President of Senegal to take over the management of the DSF 
(he was also given the responsibility to contract this audit and 
manage the interim period).

The investment made so far has reached some 6 millions of euros (a 
substantial part coming from developing countries) and one of the 
argument for not letting go the situation was the responsibility to 
protect that invested capital (which is no more in cash but hopefully 
some part has transformed into people and project experiences and 
institutional moves). Furthermore, it appears that the cashflow would 
allow to stand until the next Assembly but no more.

The situation as of today is that the audit has apparently not been 
launched and the risk is extremely high, due to the shortness of 
cashflow, that the DSF will just fade out without any decision taken 
and no audit results presented. This could be the worst scenario for 
one of the most concrete products the WSIS process has tried to 
launch and a shameful situation for our ICT4D community in regard to 
the lost investment...

In that context, I want to call upon global civil society to put 
pressure on stakeholders in order to try to save whatever is possible 
from the disaster. I am wondering, given the particular situation, if 
the best approach would not be to try to convince a UN related structure to
take over the DSF, conduct an audit which appears a mandatory 
requirement (if only for accountability of public money invested!) 
and assess the situation, trying to preserve, as far as possible, the 
initial principles (multistakeholder global fund to overcome the 
digital divide based on innovative sources).

ITU, G at ID or UNDP (which has been out of that field for some years 
now) are possible options. I am not sure that any of them is eager to 
take over a project in such a difficult situation; what I am quite 
sure is that it is my duty as a civil society involved actor to 
alert, inform and contribute to the search for a solution (I shall 
also remember as a possible contribution that Agence de la 
Francophonie had offered during the DSF Board debates to take 
responsibility to contract an audit of the DSF... although it was 
decided to do it another way).

Daniel Pimienta
Networks & Development Foundation
http://funredes.org
Member of APC Network
As LA&C civil society member of the DSF Board


From robin at ipjustice.org  Wed Apr 15 04:44:32 2009
From: robin at ipjustice.org (Robin Gross)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:44:32 -0700
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] request for sign-on from civil society groups
	supporting petition for a noncommercial stakeholders group at ICANN
Message-ID: <3031B531-C37A-46C9-8A6A-230280B024D2@ipjustice.org>

Dear All,

I am contacting you in the hopes that you can help to garner support  
for the proposed Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) charter at  
ICANN.  We are asking groups who support the petition to please sign  
this joint civil society statement: http://www.ipjustice.org/ICANN/ 
NCSG/NCSG_Charter_Civil_Society_Support.pdf

We are looking for sign-on from civil society groups from all over  
the world who can sign the statement.  Deadline is tomorrow 15 April  
(EOB in California) to sign-on.

	As you may know, the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) is the  
organization that represents non-commercial interests and advocates  
for the protection of digital rights including free expression,  
privacy, due process of law and other non-commercial interests in  
ICANN-GNSO policy discussions.  As part of ICANN?s GNSO Restructuring  
efforts, the 6 ?constituencies? are being replaced by 4 broader  
?stakeholder groups?, including a Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group  
(NCSG) to represent the interests of non-commercial users of domain  
names in the GNSO policy arena at ICANN.

NCUC has submitted a petition for the charter of the NCSG that  
intends to encourage broader civil society participation at ICANN and  
aims to increase the relative power of non-commercial interests in  
ICANN policy negotiations.  Noncommercial individuals and  
organizations are invited to participate in the NCSG, which will be  
governed by stakeholder group wide elections under the petition.

All of the proposed stakeholder group petitions are in the midst of a  
Public Comment Period at ICANN (until 15 April) so the ICANN Board of  
Directors can receive input from the general public on the various  
stakeholder group petitions.  Today I write to ask that your  
organization consider signing onto the attached joint civil society  
statement supporting NCUC?s proposal for a stakeholder group petition  
to be filed in the Public Comment forum.

	The NCSG charter needs your support to ensure that all non- 
commercial interests have a voice through their GNSO representatives  
and in the creation of policy.

	We ask for your support because we want the stakeholder group that  
represents non-commercial interests to be able to generate sound,  
consensual, and collaborative policy and decisions that are  
representative of all of the members in the stakeholder group.

	In summary, the NCUC?s petition for a Non-Commercial Stakeholder  
Group is the best proposal of those submitted because it:

Emphasizes democratic representation to the Generic Names Supporting  
Organization instead of a constituency-based approach that gives  
disproportionate power to select groups.
Encourages cooperation and inclusiveness through consensus-building  
among members of the stakeholder groups.
Ensures that minority viewpoints are heard and their policy ideas are  
explored through an increased reliance on working groups.
Operates with a flexible and lightweight framework that allows it to  
focus on representing non-commercial interests without getting bogged  
down by bureaucratic details.
Was drafted in consultation with dozens of civil society  
organizations representing all corners of the globe and went through  
numerous evolutions and thus represents a true consensus document,  
submitted by the entire NCUC (over 70 members, accept 1).
	Please consider signing the following statement to indicate your  
support for the NCSG petition from NCUC.

Joint Civil Society Statement Supporting the NCSG Petition from NCUC:

http://www.ipjustice.org/ICANN/NCSG/ 
NCSG_Charter_Civil_Society_Support.pdf

We would be glad to provide any additional information or answer any  
questions or concerns you may have on the issue.

Please indicate your support for signing this civil society statement  
before 15 April (which is the deadline for submitting Public  
Comments) by sending an email to robin at ipjustice.org.  Thank you very  
much.

Signed,

The NCUC Executive Committee and GNSO Councilors:

Robin Gross, NCUC Chair

Norbert Klein, NCUC Nominating Committee Representative (Asia)

Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza, NCUC GNSO Policy Councilor (South  
America)

Mary Wong, NCUC GNSO Policy Councilor (Asia)

William Drake, NCUC GNSO Policy Councilor (Europe)

Carlos Afonso, NCUC Executive Committee Representative (South America)

Horacio Cadiz NCUC Executive Committee Representative (Asia)

Georg Greve, NCUC Executive Committee Representative (Europe)

Robert Guerra, NCUC Executive Committee Representative (North America)

Dave Kissoondoyal, NCUC Executive Committee Representative (Africa)


Background Information:

Joint Civil Society Statement Supporting the NCSG Petition from NCUC:
http://www.ipjustice.org/ICANN/NCSG/ 
NCSG_Charter_Civil_Society_Support.pdf

NCUC?s Petition to Form a Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group:
http://gnso.icann.org/en/improvements/ncsg-petition-charter.pdf

Executive Summary / Cover Letter of NCSG Petition from NCUC:
http://gnso.icann.org/en/improvements/executive-summary-ncsg- 
proposal.pdf

Information on ICANN Public Comment Period for Stakeholder Group  
Petitions:
http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#sg-petitions

Public Comments Submitted Thus Far on Stakeholder Group Petitions:
http://forum.icann.org/lists/sg-petitions-charters/

IGF/WSIS Internet Governance Caucus Statement Supporting NCUC?s NCSG  
Proposal:
http://forum.icann.org/lists/sg-petitions-charters/msg00009.html





IP JUSTICE
Robin Gross, Executive Director
1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA  94117  USA
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From ceo at bnnrc.net  Wed Apr 15 04:58:34 2009
From: ceo at bnnrc.net (AHM Bazlur Rahman)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:58:34 +0600
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS Forum 2009
Message-ID: <072801c9bd7e$9564ccf0$1101a8c0@ceo>





WSIS Forum 2009 
ITU, UNESCO, UNCTAD and UNDP are pleased to invite you to the WSIS Forum 2009 to be held from 18 to 22 May 2009, at the ITU Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland. This event builds upon the tradition of annual WSIS May meetings, and its new format is a result of the open consultations with all WSIS Stakeholders. 

The Forum will offer participants a series of diverse meetings, including high-level panels addressing critical issues to the WSIS implementation and follow-up in multi-stakeholder set-ups, WSIS action line facilitation meetings, thematic workshops, kick-off meetings for new initiatives and projects, speed-exchanges facilitating networking among the participants, and the others. You will have structured opportunities to network, to learn and to participate in the multi-stakeholder discussions and consultations on the WSIS implementation. 

In case you are the WSIS Stakeholder and you are interested in organizing a session or having your kick-off meeting for a new initiative or ongoing project, please do not hesitate to contact WSIS Team at wsis-info at itu.int.  



Bazlu
_______________________
AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
Chief Executive Officer
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication(BNNRC)
&
Member, Strategy Council
UN-Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID)
 
House: 13/1, Road:2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207 
Post Box: 5095, Dhaka 1205 Bangladesh
 
Phone: 88-02-9130750, 88-02-9138501
01711881647 Fax: 88-02-9138501-105
 
E-mail: ceo at bnnrc.net, bnnrc at bd.drik.net
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From klohento at panos-ao.org  Wed Apr 15 06:53:06 2009
From: klohento at panos-ao.org (Ken Lohento)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:53:06 +0000
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of
 disappearing: action required
In-Reply-To: <200904132145.n3DLj6iX011200@funredes.org>
References: <200904132145.n3DLj6iX011200@funredes.org>
Message-ID: <49E57642.1080008@panos-ao.org>

Thank you for this message Daniel. It's just a pity that situation. As 
you're also saying, I'm not sure UNDP or ITU will like to take over 
responsibility so easily on what has become a "patate chaude" as we say 
in French, even if they were called upon. Symbolically, it will be also 
a pity if that initiative fails, as it was indeed the (most?) concrete 
WSIS outcome for developing countries at least, even though it was not 
an initiative supported by all. Do you know why is the audit delayed?

Regards

Ken L

 Daniel Pimienta a ?crit :
> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list. Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
> Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of this message!
> _______________________________________
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I shall report on the critical situation of the Digital Solidarity 
> Fund (DSF) in my quality of Latin America & Caribbbean civil society 
> member of the Board. I wish to report in the WSIS civil society 
> plenary list as well as in G at ID discussion list, in the hope to 
> trigger some positive dynamics in both communities (and I am also 
> informing the DSF Board of that initiative).
>
> The last couple of months have been of acute crisis after a change in 
> the DSF Presidency and coordinated complains from the new DSF 
> President and the President of Senegal (speaking as "historical 
> father") on General Secretary management: basically they do not trust 
> the 1% principle could be effective and wish a centering and hosting 
> of the DSF on Africa, as an ICT4D project management organization.
>
> On November 25th a stormy General Assembly was held in Lyon (France) 
> and was unable to reach consensus on further steps. An extraordinary 
> Assembly was then scheduled in Bamako, January 27th, 2009. More 
> confused than stormy this Assembly decided that a strategical and 
> finance independant audit shall be organized and its results 
> presented to a last extraordinary Assembly to be scheduled prior to 
> May 27th. This last Assembly would finally decide on the proposition 
> of the President of Senegal to take over the management of the DSF 
> (he was also given the responsibility to contract this audit and 
> manage the interim period).
>
> The investment made so far has reached some 6 millions of euros (a 
> substantial part coming from developing countries) and one of the 
> argument for not letting go the situation was the responsibility to 
> protect that invested capital (which is no more in cash but hopefully 
> some part has transformed into people and project experiences and 
> institutional moves). Furthermore, it appears that the cashflow would 
> allow to stand until the next Assembly but no more.
>
> The situation as of today is that the audit has apparently not been 
> launched and the risk is extremely high, due to the shortness of 
> cashflow, that the DSF will just fade out without any decision taken 
> and no audit results presented. This could be the worst scenario for 
> one of the most concrete products the WSIS process has tried to 
> launch and a shameful situation for our ICT4D community in regard to 
> the lost investment...
>
> In that context, I want to call upon global civil society to put 
> pressure on stakeholders in order to try to save whatever is possible 
> from the disaster. I am wondering, given the particular situation, if 
> the best approach would not be to try to convince a UN related structure to
> take over the DSF, conduct an audit which appears a mandatory 
> requirement (if only for accountability of public money invested!) 
> and assess the situation, trying to preserve, as far as possible, the 
> initial principles (multistakeholder global fund to overcome the 
> digital divide based on innovative sources).
>
> ITU, G at ID or UNDP (which has been out of that field for some years 
> now) are possible options. I am not sure that any of them is eager to 
> take over a project in such a difficult situation; what I am quite 
> sure is that it is my duty as a civil society involved actor to 
> alert, inform and contribute to the search for a solution (I shall 
> also remember as a possible contribution that Agence de la 
> Francophonie had offered during the DSF Board debates to take 
> responsibility to contract an audit of the DSF... although it was 
> decided to do it another way).
>
> Daniel Pimienta
> Networks & Development Foundation
> http://funredes.org
> Member of APC Network
> As LA&C civil society member of the DSF Board
>
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary at wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>
>
>   


From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Wed Apr 15 10:01:52 2009
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:01:52 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of
	disappearing: action required
Message-ID: <737493.16238.qm@web65607.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>




	
	
	
	
	
	

Hi all of you,
Sorry to
recall that unfortunately, i have always been against this DSF
initiative, from its institution as the main result of the WSIS.
If
there will be useful to set up an relevant and independent evaluation of this
initiative (as a losing time process), please inform, i should be
interestedbest regards




      
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From Charles.Geiger at unctad.org  Wed Apr 15 11:03:14 2009
From: Charles.Geiger at unctad.org (Charles Geiger)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:03:14 +0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of
 disappearing: action required
In-Reply-To: <200904132145.n3DLj6iX011200@funredes.org>
Message-ID: <OFD6BA6670.C7A1B28B-ONC1257599.00357D44-C1257599.00373517@unog.un.org>

Dear Daniel

Thanks for this note to the WSIS Plenary Group.

Let us be clear: The DSF was not created by WSIS. The idea of a DSF (the 
basic idea came from the President of Senegal) did not fly during WSIS 
2003 in Geneva. Governments did not want to create a new and 
administration-heavy intergovernmental fund.  Therefore the DSF was 
created in a parallel process to WSIS by a group of persons from Geneva (+ 
President Wade). One of the main mistakes was to create this as a private 
foundation, located in Geneva, with an administration that paid Swiss 
salaries and in Swiss francs (= very expensive). 

Over the years, the Secretariat has spent a lot of money on administration 
and on making the 1% Digital Solidarity Principle known, but without big 
success. 

Maybe the possible death of the DSF could open up the way for something 
more feasible, e.g. an international network of civil society entities 
focusing on democratic participation (+ right to Information), free flow 
of information, and equitable and affordable access to ICTs for remote and 
marginalized populations.

These kind of networks exist locally in some countries, e.g. the BNNRC in 
Bangladesh. Maybe several such initiatives could get together and form an 
international network, and maybe APC would be interested to act as 
Secretariat. I don't know, it is just an idea, but it could be discussed 
during the WSIS Forum in May, in a parallel event. 

Best regards

Charles 






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_______________________________________

Dear colleagues,

I shall report on the critical situation of the Digital Solidarity 
Fund (DSF) in my quality of Latin America & Caribbbean civil society 
member of the Board. I wish to report in the WSIS civil society 
plenary list as well as in G at ID discussion list, in the hope to 
trigger some positive dynamics in both communities (and I am also 
informing the DSF Board of that initiative).

The last couple of months have been of acute crisis after a change in 
the DSF Presidency and coordinated complains from the new DSF 
President and the President of Senegal (speaking as "historical 
father") on General Secretary management: basically they do not trust 
the 1% principle could be effective and wish a centering and hosting 
of the DSF on Africa, as an ICT4D project management organization.

On November 25th a stormy General Assembly was held in Lyon (France) 
and was unable to reach consensus on further steps. An extraordinary 
Assembly was then scheduled in Bamako, January 27th, 2009. More 
confused than stormy this Assembly decided that a strategical and 
finance independant audit shall be organized and its results 
presented to a last extraordinary Assembly to be scheduled prior to 
May 27th. This last Assembly would finally decide on the proposition 
of the President of Senegal to take over the management of the DSF 
(he was also given the responsibility to contract this audit and 
manage the interim period).

The investment made so far has reached some 6 millions of euros (a 
substantial part coming from developing countries) and one of the 
argument for not letting go the situation was the responsibility to 
protect that invested capital (which is no more in cash but hopefully 
some part has transformed into people and project experiences and 
institutional moves). Furthermore, it appears that the cashflow would 
allow to stand until the next Assembly but no more.

The situation as of today is that the audit has apparently not been 
launched and the risk is extremely high, due to the shortness of 
cashflow, that the DSF will just fade out without any decision taken 
and no audit results presented. This could be the worst scenario for 
one of the most concrete products the WSIS process has tried to 
launch and a shameful situation for our ICT4D community in regard to 
the lost investment...

In that context, I want to call upon global civil society to put 
pressure on stakeholders in order to try to save whatever is possible 
from the disaster. I am wondering, given the particular situation, if 
the best approach would not be to try to convince a UN related structure 
to
take over the DSF, conduct an audit which appears a mandatory 
requirement (if only for accountability of public money invested!) 
and assess the situation, trying to preserve, as far as possible, the 
initial principles (multistakeholder global fund to overcome the 
digital divide based on innovative sources).

ITU, G at ID or UNDP (which has been out of that field for some years 
now) are possible options. I am not sure that any of them is eager to 
take over a project in such a difficult situation; what I am quite 
sure is that it is my duty as a civil society involved actor to 
alert, inform and contribute to the search for a solution (I shall 
also remember as a possible contribution that Agence de la 
Francophonie had offered during the DSF Board debates to take 
responsibility to contract an audit of the DSF... although it was 
decided to do it another way).

Daniel Pimienta
Networks & Development Foundation
http://funredes.org
Member of APC Network
As LA&C civil society member of the DSF Board

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From Charles.Geiger at unctad.org  Wed Apr 15 11:27:38 2009
From: Charles.Geiger at unctad.org (Charles Geiger)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:27:38 +0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fw: Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of
 disappearing: action required
Message-ID: <OF64A20E90.725CCDFC-ONC1257599.003906A6-C1257599.003970E6@unog.un.org>

Dear all

With reference to the last para below, I would like to inform you that 
short private meetings or short parallel meetings can take place during 
the WSIS Forum, depending on room availablilty. If your organization would 
need a room for such a meeting, please contact   jaroslaw.ponder at itu.int . 


Charles Geiger 



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15.04.2009 12:03

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Dear Daniel

Thanks for this note to the WSIS Plenary Group.

Let us be clear: The DSF was not created by WSIS. The idea of a DSF (the 
basic idea came from the President of Senegal) did not fly during WSIS 
2003 in Geneva. Governments did not want to create a new and 
administration-heavy intergovernmental fund.  Therefore the DSF was 
created in a parallel process to WSIS by a group of persons from Geneva (+ 
President Wade). One of the main mistakes was to create this as a private 
foundation, located in Geneva, with an administration that paid Swiss 
salaries and in Swiss francs (= very expensive). 

Over the years, the Secretariat has spent a lot of money on administration 
and on making the 1% Digital Solidarity Principle known, but without big 
success. 

Maybe the possible death of the DSF could open up the way for something 
more feasible, e.g. an international network of civil society entities 
focusing on democratic participation (+ right to Information), free flow 
of information, and equitable and affordable access to ICTs for remote and 
marginalized populations.

These kind of networks exist locally in some countries, e.g. the BNNRC in 
Bangladesh. Maybe several such initiatives could get together and form an 
international network, and maybe APC would be interested to act as 
Secretariat. I don't know, it is just an idea, but it could be discussed 
during the WSIS Forum in May, in a parallel event. 

Best regards

Charles 






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_______________________________________

Dear colleagues,

I shall report on the critical situation of the Digital Solidarity 
Fund (DSF) in my quality of Latin America & Caribbbean civil society 
member of the Board. I wish to report in the WSIS civil society 
plenary list as well as in G at ID discussion list, in the hope to 
trigger some positive dynamics in both communities (and I am also 
informing the DSF Board of that initiative).

The last couple of months have been of acute crisis after a change in 
the DSF Presidency and coordinated complains from the new DSF 
President and the President of Senegal (speaking as "historical 
father") on General Secretary management: basically they do not trust 
the 1% principle could be effective and wish a centering and hosting 
of the DSF on Africa, as an ICT4D project management organization.

On November 25th a stormy General Assembly was held in Lyon (France) 
and was unable to reach consensus on further steps. An extraordinary 
Assembly was then scheduled in Bamako, January 27th, 2009. More 
confused than stormy this Assembly decided that a strategical and 
finance independant audit shall be organized and its results 
presented to a last extraordinary Assembly to be scheduled prior to 
May 27th. This last Assembly would finally decide on the proposition 
of the President of Senegal to take over the management of the DSF 
(he was also given the responsibility to contract this audit and 
manage the interim period).

The investment made so far has reached some 6 millions of euros (a 
substantial part coming from developing countries) and one of the 
argument for not letting go the situation was the responsibility to 
protect that invested capital (which is no more in cash but hopefully 
some part has transformed into people and project experiences and 
institutional moves). Furthermore, it appears that the cashflow would 
allow to stand until the next Assembly but no more.

The situation as of today is that the audit has apparently not been 
launched and the risk is extremely high, due to the shortness of 
cashflow, that the DSF will just fade out without any decision taken 
and no audit results presented. This could be the worst scenario for 
one of the most concrete products the WSIS process has tried to 
launch and a shameful situation for our ICT4D community in regard to 
the lost investment...

In that context, I want to call upon global civil society to put 
pressure on stakeholders in order to try to save whatever is possible 
from the disaster. I am wondering, given the particular situation, if 
the best approach would not be to try to convince a UN related structure 
to
take over the DSF, conduct an audit which appears a mandatory 
requirement (if only for accountability of public money invested!) 
and assess the situation, trying to preserve, as far as possible, the 
initial principles (multistakeholder global fund to overcome the 
digital divide based on innovative sources).

ITU, G at ID or UNDP (which has been out of that field for some years 
now) are possible options. I am not sure that any of them is eager to 
take over a project in such a difficult situation; what I am quite 
sure is that it is my duty as a civil society involved actor to 
alert, inform and contribute to the search for a solution (I shall 
also remember as a possible contribution that Agence de la 
Francophonie had offered during the DSF Board debates to take 
responsibility to contract an audit of the DSF... although it was 
decided to do it another way).

Daniel Pimienta
Networks & Development Foundation
http://funredes.org
Member of APC Network
As LA&C civil society member of the DSF Board

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From pimienta at funredes.org  Wed Apr 15 14:01:52 2009
From: pimienta at funredes.org (Daniel Pimienta)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:01:52 -0400
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of
 disappearing: action required
In-Reply-To: <49E57642.1080008@panos-ao.org>
References: <200904132145.n3DLj6iX011200@funredes.org>
	<49E57642.1080008@panos-ao.org>
Message-ID: <200904151305.n3FD5fpx030930@funredes.org>

Dear Ken,

I do not have any information on why the audit has not been started 
and this is the main trigger of my alert since I am every day more 
convinced that this audit is a requirement... (see below).

Dear Charles,

I discover I may have not an accurate sense of how much the DSF 
initiative has been controvesial and indeed I perceive that point as 
a supplementary reason to have an audit performed. Another difficult 
matter to sort out is to understand if the actual situation of the 
DSF is a logical consequence of its very initial design (as some 
people appear to believe) or if it is the result of conjonctural 
circumstances... and again a neutral and independant audit appears to 
be a requirement here.

As for the idea of "an international network of civil society 
entities focusing on democratic participation (+ right to 
Information), free flow of information, and equitable and affordable 
access to ICTs for remote and marginalized populations", it does 
sounds a very interesting and promising idea (I would personally add 
"digital literacy" and "info ethics" as key items in such program) 
but I wonder why this idea have to be  dependant on the existence or 
not of the DSF.

In any case, the idea to discuss the DSF situation during the next 
WSIS Forum could be much appropriate.

Best,
Daniel  
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From muguet at mdpi.org  Wed Apr 15 09:56:44 2009
From: muguet at mdpi.org (Dr. Francis MUGUET)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:56:44 +0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of
 disappearing: action required
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Dear Daniel

The DSF is dead.
It had a serious birth defect
the legal basis of its main financial mechanism was wrong...
To force a supplier to "donate" to a third party, in the context
of a purchase, is called "racket", and  for whatever goof reason this
donation is made. 
During WSIS, I warned about.  a swiss DSF proponent
told me that a legal study has been made...
for the city of Geneva.... it turns out that it is one of the few city
in the world that there is a legal hole agains racket....

the overexpenditure of the DSF staff has added to the problem...
to the point of creating a mini-scandal
and now there is a lack of credibility
and confidence....

better dissolve the current DSF, to start a completely new one,
transparent from the onset, with a new financial supporting
mechanism.

This could be discussed, and there is a CSTD recommandation
that would allow that.

I would call that the real emergency is the recommendation
that the CSTD has adopted last May... after the long work
of the WSIS-Finance group
tp://www.wsis-finance.org/

The CSTD <http://www.wsis-finance.org/cstd.html> has adopted a 
recommendation in May 2008 :
*/ 32. Recommends that UNGIS organize focused open multistakeholder 
consultations on the implementation of part B of the Tunis Agenda " 
Financial Mechanisms for Meeting the Challenges of ICTs for Development"; /*

Jean-Louis Fullsack has not been allowed to assist to the last UNGIS 
meeting.

What are they doing at UNGIS ?

Best

Francis

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> Dear colleagues,
>
> I shall report on the critical situation of the Digital Solidarity 
> Fund (DSF) in my quality of Latin America & Caribbbean civil society 
> member of the Board. I wish to report in the WSIS civil society 
> plenary list as well as in G at ID discussion list, in the hope to 
> trigger some positive dynamics in both communities (and I am also 
> informing the DSF Board of that initiative).
>
> The last couple of months have been of acute crisis after a change in 
> the DSF Presidency and coordinated complains from the new DSF 
> President and the President of Senegal (speaking as "historical 
> father") on General Secretary management: basically they do not trust 
> the 1% principle could be effective and wish a centering and hosting 
> of the DSF on Africa, as an ICT4D project management organization.
>
> On November 25th a stormy General Assembly was held in Lyon (France) 
> and was unable to reach consensus on further steps. An extraordinary 
> Assembly was then scheduled in Bamako, January 27th, 2009. More 
> confused than stormy this Assembly decided that a strategical and 
> finance independant audit shall be organized and its results 
> presented to a last extraordinary Assembly to be scheduled prior to 
> May 27th. This last Assembly would finally decide on the proposition 
> of the President of Senegal to take over the management of the DSF 
> (he was also given the responsibility to contract this audit and 
> manage the interim period).
>
> The investment made so far has reached some 6 millions of euros (a 
> substantial part coming from developing countries) and one of the 
> argument for not letting go the situation was the responsibility to 
> protect that invested capital (which is no more in cash but hopefully 
> some part has transformed into people and project experiences and 
> institutional moves). Furthermore, it appears that the cashflow would 
> allow to stand until the next Assembly but no more.
>
> The situation as of today is that the audit has apparently not been 
> launched and the risk is extremely high, due to the shortness of 
> cashflow, that the DSF will just fade out without any decision taken 
> and no audit results presented. This could be the worst scenario for 
> one of the most concrete products the WSIS process has tried to 
> launch and a shameful situation for our ICT4D community in regard to 
> the lost investment...
>
> In that context, I want to call upon global civil society to put 
> pressure on stakeholders in order to try to save whatever is possible 
> from the disaster. I am wondering, given the particular situation, if 
> the best approach would not be to try to convince a UN related structure to
> take over the DSF, conduct an audit which appears a mandatory 
> requirement (if only for accountability of public money invested!) 
> and assess the situation, trying to preserve, as far as possible, the 
> initial principles (multistakeholder global fund to overcome the 
> digital divide based on innovative sources).
>
> ITU, G at ID or UNDP (which has been out of that field for some years 
> now) are possible options. I am not sure that any of them is eager to 
> take over a project in such a difficult situation; what I am quite 
> sure is that it is my duty as a civil society involved actor to 
> alert, inform and contribute to the search for a solution (I shall 
> also remember as a possible contribution that Agence de la 
> Francophonie had offered during the DSF Board debates to take 
> responsibility to contract an audit of the DSF... although it was 
> decided to do it another way).
>
> Daniel Pimienta
> Networks & Development Foundation
> http://funredes.org
> Member of APC Network
> As LA&C civil society member of the DSF Board
>
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From mgurst at vcn.bc.ca  Wed Apr 15 17:40:44 2009
From: mgurst at vcn.bc.ca (mgurst at vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:40:44 -0700
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] FW: [wsis-finance] Re: Digital Solidarity Fund in
	risk of disappearing: action required
Message-ID: <C5551421D7394C92A7D6250027DB74DE@userPC>

Francis and all,
 
I don't know enough about the DSF to comment on Daniel's note or your
response but on one issue--
 
Having a "set-aside" of some kind in relation to a contract as per the DSF's
1% is very common at least in the Canadian context where many jurisdictions,
(larger) municipalities and various other levels of government) have
specific requirements that for example a private property developer will
provide a certain proportion of their development at no or highly subsidized
cost to a qualifying public interest group as a condition of their building
permission.  The Canadian government and various municipalities have a
requirement of I believe, that 1% of the cost of a new construction for
which they are financially responsible will go to "public art" and so on and
so on.
 
I don't know the legal structure of these (I suspect they vary quite a lot),
but the process is a very common, widely accepted, and generally valued one.
 
MG
 
 

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Dear Daniel

The DSF is dead.
It had a serious birth defect
the legal basis of its main financial mechanism was wrong...
To force a supplier to "donate" to a third party, in the context
of a purchase, is called "racket", and  for whatever goof reason this
donation is made.  
During WSIS, I warned about.  a swiss DSF proponent 
told me that a legal study has been made...
for the city of Geneva.... it turns out that it is one of the few city
in the world that there is a legal hole agains racket....

the overexpenditure of the DSF staff has added to the problem...
to the point of creating a mini-scandal
and now there is a lack of credibility
and confidence....

better dissolve the current DSF, to start a completely new one,
transparent from the onset, with a new financial supporting
mechanism.

This could be discussed, and there is a CSTD recommandation
that would allow that.

I would call that the real emergency is the recommendation
that the CSTD has adopted last May... after the long work
of the WSIS-Finance group 
tp://www.wsis-finance.org/

The CSTD <http://www.wsis-finance.org/cstd.html>  has adopted a
recommendation in May 2008 : 
32. Recommends that UNGIS organize focused open multistakeholder
consultations on the implementation of part B of the Tunis Agenda "
Financial Mechanisms for Meeting the Challenges of ICTs for Development"; 

Jean-Louis Fullsack has not been allowed to assist to the last UNGIS
meeting.

What are they doing at UNGIS ? 

Best 

Francis




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From mgurst at vcn.bc.ca  Wed Apr 15 17:55:11 2009
From: mgurst at vcn.bc.ca (mgurst at vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:55:11 -0700
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of
	disappearing: action required
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Charles,
 
Your suggestion re: a global civil society ICT4D network is a very good one
and moreover is one where there has already been considerable discussion.
Also, there are a variety of networks at the national and even global level
that would usefully be part of such a global body... (several of them now
function in a somewhat similar role).  
 
The problem from my experience with these efforts is that there is little
funding available for the establishment and maintenance of these networks.
Funders are interested mostly in one off projects and rarely will provide
"establishment/overhead" funding.
 
Even though these networks can function largely electronically they still
require maintenance and development which requires attention and effort
which in turn require resources.  
 
The more active these networks become i.e. the more they actually engage in
doing things on the ground rather than simply functioning as discussion
vehicles/e-lists/websites the more such funding is required and as is
clearly visible in this area as in others, "he who pays the piper...
 
I don't mean to completely discourage such an effort and particularly one
that might function under UN (or other officially sanctioned auspices) but
simply to introduce a bit of caution into the discussion. Thinking through a
funding  (for example a UN trust fund) and governance model in advance might
save a lot of difficulties down the road.
 
Best,
 
MBG 
 
 

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Dear Daniel 

Thanks for this note to the WSIS Plenary Group. 

Let us be clear: The DSF was not created by WSIS. The idea of a DSF (the
basic idea came from the President of Senegal) did not fly during WSIS 2003
in Geneva. Governments did not want to create a new and administration-heavy
intergovernmental fund.  Therefore the DSF was created in a parallel process
to WSIS by a group of persons from Geneva (+ President Wade). One of the
main mistakes was to create this as a private foundation, located in Geneva,
with an administration that paid Swiss salaries and in Swiss francs (= very
expensive). 

Over the years, the Secretariat has spent a lot of money on administration
and on making the 1% Digital Solidarity Principle known, but without big
success. 

Maybe the possible death of the DSF could open up the way for something more
feasible, e.g. an international network of civil society entities focusing
on democratic participation (+ right to Information), free flow of
information, and equitable and affordable access to ICTs for remote and
marginalized populations. 

These kind of networks exist locally in some countries, e.g. the BNNRC in
Bangladesh. Maybe several such initiatives could get together and form an
international network, and maybe APC would be interested to act as
Secretariat. I don't know, it is just an idea, but it could be discussed
during the WSIS Forum in May, in a parallel event. 

Best regards 

Charles   






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Dear colleagues,

I shall report on the critical situation of the Digital Solidarity 
Fund (DSF) in my quality of Latin America & Caribbbean civil society 
member of the Board. I wish to report in the WSIS civil society 
plenary list as well as in G at ID discussion list, in the hope to 
trigger some positive dynamics in both communities (and I am also 
informing the DSF Board of that initiative).

The last couple of months have been of acute crisis after a change in 
the DSF Presidency and coordinated complains from the new DSF 
President and the President of Senegal (speaking as "historical 
father") on General Secretary management: basically they do not trust 
the 1% principle could be effective and wish a centering and hosting 
of the DSF on Africa, as an ICT4D project management organization.

On November 25th a stormy General Assembly was held in Lyon (France) 
and was unable to reach consensus on further steps. An extraordinary 
Assembly was then scheduled in Bamako, January 27th, 2009. More 
confused than stormy this Assembly decided that a strategical and 
finance independant audit shall be organized and its results 
presented to a last extraordinary Assembly to be scheduled prior to 
May 27th. This last Assembly would finally decide on the proposition 
of the President of Senegal to take over the management of the DSF 
(he was also given the responsibility to contract this audit and 
manage the interim period).

The investment made so far has reached some 6 millions of euros (a 
substantial part coming from developing countries) and one of the 
argument for not letting go the situation was the responsibility to 
protect that invested capital (which is no more in cash but hopefully 
some part has transformed into people and project experiences and 
institutional moves). Furthermore, it appears that the cashflow would 
allow to stand until the next Assembly but no more.

The situation as of today is that the audit has apparently not been 
launched and the risk is extremely high, due to the shortness of 
cashflow, that the DSF will just fade out without any decision taken 
and no audit results presented. This could be the worst scenario for 
one of the most concrete products the WSIS process has tried to 
launch and a shameful situation for our ICT4D community in regard to 
the lost investment...

In that context, I want to call upon global civil society to put 
pressure on stakeholders in order to try to save whatever is possible 
from the disaster. I am wondering, given the particular situation, if 
the best approach would not be to try to convince a UN related structure to
take over the DSF, conduct an audit which appears a mandatory 
requirement (if only for accountability of public money invested!) 
and assess the situation, trying to preserve, as far as possible, the 
initial principles (multistakeholder global fund to overcome the 
digital divide based on innovative sources).

ITU, G at ID or UNDP (which has been out of that field for some years 
now) are possible options. I am not sure that any of them is eager to 
take over a project in such a difficult situation; what I am quite 
sure is that it is my duty as a civil society involved actor to 
alert, inform and contribute to the search for a solution (I shall 
also remember as a possible contribution that Agence de la 
Francophonie had offered during the DSF Board debates to take 
responsibility to contract an audit of the DSF... although it was 
decided to do it another way).

Daniel Pimienta
Networks & Development Foundation
http://funredes.org
Member of APC Network
As LA&C civil society member of the DSF Board

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From pimienta at funredes.org  Wed Apr 15 17:44:43 2009
From: pimienta at funredes.org (Daniel Pimienta)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:44:43 -0400
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] FW: [wsis-finance] Re: Digital Solidarity
 Fund in risk of disappearing: action required
In-Reply-To: <C5551421D7394C92A7D6250027DB74DE@userPC>
References: <C5551421D7394C92A7D6250027DB74DE@userPC>
Message-ID: <200904151714.n3FHECc5015741@funredes.org>

Dear Francis,

Apparently the subject of the 1% is extremely sensitive and polemical.

My intention was not to trigger a debate about the validity of the 1% 
principle but  rather inform of a situation of concern about the DSF 
where I supposed that the claim for an audit could be a consensual 
matter within civil society, independently of the diverging opinions 
on the 1% principle.

As for the 1%, with no intention to feed again this specific debate, 
I shall just note that:
1) The idea of the DSF was not for a "forced" tax but rather a 
consumer "voluntary" contribution when buying ICT equipments.
2) The telecommunication reform, in almost all Latin America 
countries, have set up a mechanism where a fixed percentage of the 
telecommunication consumer bill (says 2% in some countries) is used 
to feed some type of "universal access fund" which is supposed to 
be  used to finance social projects of telecommunication (in many 
case it goes beyond telecom and it serves for instance telecenters).

This mechanism has been functionning for many years with no legal 
problem and represents a huge amount of money derived from carriers 
to fund social projects. The situation is extremely different 
depending of the countries (some have stored the money without giving 
use, others have used for non planned purposes, and others do develop 
social projects) but this is not the subject here.

Daniel

PS: I totally agree with Mike Gurstein on the deep dififculty to fund 
(beyond the next few years) such networking projects. Our Latin 
America MISTICA project (http://funredes.org/mistica) is a perfect 
example of it (people, years after, still complain on the end of what 
was an extremely efficient mechanism and had to stop due to lack of 
support: the posthume web site keep receiving the same huge amount of 
visits 5 years after death!).


From email at hakik.org  Wed Apr 15 09:56:00 2009
From: email at hakik.org (Hakikur Rahman)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:56:00 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of
 disappearing: action required
In-Reply-To: <49E57642.1080008@panos-ao.org>
References: <200904132145.n3DLj6iX011200@funredes.org>
	<49E57642.1080008@panos-ao.org>
Message-ID: <20090415171530.D131F32DDD6@mail.gn.apc.org>

It is good that the issue is being raised here 
and we learned. Certainly, it was some kind of 
expectation for developing countries to elevate 
their ICT platform a bit higher. You are right, 
though the issue was revolving around for quite a 
few years, there were not sufficient support from 
all corners, despite it would be extremely 
beneficial to those transitional economies who 
are yet lagging in digital divide. Now that, we 
came to know, should we start talking for not 
closing the issue, as it is an essential 
component for sustainable development. I hope 
UNDP would come forward on this, at least. Thanking you.

Best regards,
Hakik


At 06:53 AM 4/15/2009, Ken Lohento wrote:
>[Please note that by using 'REPLY', your 
>response goes to the entire list. Kindly use 
>individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
>Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to 
>access automatic translation of this message!
>_______________________________________
>
>Thank you for this message Daniel. It's just a pity that situation. As
>you're also saying, I'm not sure UNDP or ITU will like to take over
>responsibility so easily on what has become a "patate chaude" as we say
>in French, even if they were called upon. Symbolically, it will be also
>a pity if that initiative fails, as it was indeed the (most?) concrete
>WSIS outcome for developing countries at least, even though it was not
>an initiative supported by all. Do you know why is the audit delayed?
>
>Regards
>
>Ken L
>
>  Daniel Pimienta a ?crit :
> > [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your 
> response goes to the entire list. Kindly use 
> individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
> >
> > Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to 
> access automatic translation of this message!
> > _______________________________________
> >
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > I shall report on the critical situation of the Digital Solidarity
> > Fund (DSF) in my quality of Latin America & Caribbbean civil society
> > member of the Board. I wish to report in the WSIS civil society
> > plenary list as well as in G at ID discussion list, in the hope to
> > trigger some positive dynamics in both communities (and I am also
> > informing the DSF Board of that initiative).
> >
> > The last couple of months have been of acute crisis after a change in
> > the DSF Presidency and coordinated complains from the new DSF
> > President and the President of Senegal (speaking as "historical
> > father") on General Secretary management: basically they do not trust
> > the 1% principle could be effective and wish a centering and hosting
> > of the DSF on Africa, as an ICT4D project management organization.
> >
> > On November 25th a stormy General Assembly was held in Lyon (France)
> > and was unable to reach consensus on further steps. An extraordinary
> > Assembly was then scheduled in Bamako, January 27th, 2009. More
> > confused than stormy this Assembly decided that a strategical and
> > finance independant audit shall be organized and its results
> > presented to a last extraordinary Assembly to be scheduled prior to
> > May 27th. This last Assembly would finally decide on the proposition
> > of the President of Senegal to take over the management of the DSF
> > (he was also given the responsibility to contract this audit and
> > manage the interim period).
> >
> > The investment made so far has reached some 6 millions of euros (a
> > substantial part coming from developing countries) and one of the
> > argument for not letting go the situation was the responsibility to
> > protect that invested capital (which is no more in cash but hopefully
> > some part has transformed into people and project experiences and
> > institutional moves). Furthermore, it appears that the cashflow would
> > allow to stand until the next Assembly but no more.
> >
> > The situation as of today is that the audit has apparently not been
> > launched and the risk is extremely high, due to the shortness of
> > cashflow, that the DSF will just fade out without any decision taken
> > and no audit results presented. This could be the worst scenario for
> > one of the most concrete products the WSIS process has tried to
> > launch and a shameful situation for our ICT4D community in regard to
> > the lost investment...
> >
> > In that context, I want to call upon global civil society to put
> > pressure on stakeholders in order to try to save whatever is possible
> > from the disaster. I am wondering, given the particular situation, if
> > the best approach would not be to try to convince a UN related structure to
> > take over the DSF, conduct an audit which appears a mandatory
> > requirement (if only for accountability of public money invested!)
> > and assess the situation, trying to preserve, as far as possible, the
> > initial principles (multistakeholder global fund to overcome the
> > digital divide based on innovative sources).
> >
> > ITU, G at ID or UNDP (which has been out of that field for some years
> > now) are possible options. I am not sure that any of them is eager to
> > take over a project in such a difficult situation; what I am quite
> > sure is that it is my duty as a civil society involved actor to
> > alert, inform and contribute to the search for a solution (I shall
> > also remember as a possible contribution that Agence de la
> > Francophonie had offered during the DSF Board debates to take
> > responsibility to contract an audit of the DSF... although it was
> > decided to do it another way).
> >
> > Daniel Pimienta
> > Networks & Development Foundation
> > http://funredes.org
> > Member of APC Network
> > As LA&C civil society member of the DSF Board
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Plenary mailing list
> > Plenary at wsis-cs.org
> > http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> >
> >
> >
>
>_______________________________________________
>Plenary mailing list
>Plenary at wsis-cs.org
>http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plenary


From ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es  Wed Apr 15 20:52:39 2009
From: ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es (Lady Murrugarra)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:52:39 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TUBERCULOSIS  RESEARCH  UNIT - IMT AVH UPCH
Message-ID: <772481.26356.qm@web24404.mail.ird.yahoo.com>

?
La tuberculosis es una enfermedad infectocontagiosa. Se transmite por v?a a?rea, al igual que el resfriado com?n. S?lo transmiten la infecci?n las personas que padecen tuberculosis pulmonar. Al toser, estornudar, hablar o escupir, expulsan al aire los g?rmenes de la enfermedad, conocidos como bacilos tuberculosos. Basta inhalar una peque?a cantidad de bacilos para contraer la infecci?n. 
Infecci?n y transmisi?n
Una persona con tuberculosis activa no tratada infecta una media de 10 a 15 personas al a?o. Sin embargo, no todos los sujetos infectados por el bacilo de la tuberculosis necesariamente desarrollan la enfermedad. El sistema inmunol?gico ?empareda? los g?rmenes que, aislados por una gruesa envoltura c?rea pueden permanecer en estado latente durante a?os. El riesgo de enfermar aumenta cuando el sistema inmunol?gico de la persona est? debilitado.

Cada segundo se produce en el mundo una nueva infecci?n por el bacilo de la tuberculosis. 
Una tercera parte de la poblaci?n mundial est? actualmente infectada por el bacilo de la tuberculosis. 
Del 5% al 10% de las personas infectadas por el bacilo de la tuberculosis (y que no est?n infectadas por el VIH), enferman o son contagiosas en alg?n momento de sus vidas. Las personas con coinfecci?n por el VIH y la tuberculosis tienen muchas m?s probabilidades de enfermar por tuberculosis. 
documents? IMT AVH UPCH

Publicaciones
? 
Investigaci?n 
?
More information.
?
http://www.upch.edu.pe/tropicales/utb/TBCPERU/index.htm
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Slds cordiales.


      
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From delynana2002 at yahoo.fr  Thu Apr 16 09:53:22 2009
From: delynana2002 at yahoo.fr (NANA Delphine)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:53:22 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of disappearing:
	action required]
Message-ID: <329717.54289.qm@web24204.mail.ird.yahoo.com>

Chers Tous,

Je remercie le coll?gue Daniel Pimienta d'avoir port? le sujet ? votre attention .? Nous avons essay? d'?changer sur le sujet dans un cadre restreint, dans l'espoir de voir le processus avanc? tel qu'il avait ?t? d?cid? ? la r?union de Bamako, r?union ? laquelle nous avons particip? tous les deux en tant que soci?t? civile d'Am?rique Latine et africaine. 
N?anmoins, la Soci?t? Civile Africaine pour la Soci?t? de l'Information ( ACSIS), membre fondateur du FSN est tr?s pr?occup?e? . Nous avons sign?, il ya quelque temps un MoU avec le FSN relatif au principe de 1% de solidarit? num?rique; dans certains pays d'afrique, ce principe a d?j?? ?t? vot? au
 Parlement, d'autres
 pays d'afrique? sont? en pleine n?gociation pour instaurer ce m?me principe . Il serait triste de voir le FSN qui a impuls? une telle
 dynamique mourir
Nous restons tr?s solidaires ? toutes? les initiatives qui oeuvreraient pour sauver le FSN

Sinc?re collaboration

Delphine NANA MEKOUNTE 
Membre Fondateur et Pr?sidente? ACSIS (African Civil Society for the Information Society) Network on ICT4D www.acsis-africa.org 
Directrice
G?n?rale du CEFEPROD, Organisation dot?e du Statut Consultatif Sp?cial
aupr?s? du Conseil Economique et Social des Nations Unies? (ECOSOC.) www.cefeprod.org 
Member Champions Network-UN-GAID www.un-gaid.org??????? 
BP. 8376. T?l. (+ 237) 99 99 86 16 

??????? YAOUNDE-CAMEROUN 

?
?
--- En date de?: Mer 15.4.09, Lohento <lohento at oridev.org> a ?crit?:
De: Lohento <lohento at oridev.org>
Objet: [Africa_Net] [Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of disappearing: action required]
?: "africa_net" <africa_net at reseauafricanet.org>
Date: Mercredi 15 Avril 2009, 8h06

Voir ci-dessous - Vers la disparition du fonds de solidarit? num?rique? 
Apparemment l'audit qui devait ?tre r?alis? pour mai n'a pas encore
?t? 
effectu? et certains craignent qu'on n'aboutisse finalement ? la mort
de 
cette institution qui, quel que soit ce qui peut en ?tre dit, est le 
r?sultat international le plus concret du SMSI pour les pays en 
d?veloppement.

Ken L
-------- Message original --------
Sujet : 	[WSIS


 CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of 
disappearing: action required
Date : 	Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:41:03 -0400
De : 	Daniel Pimienta <pimienta at funredes.org>
R?pondre ? : 	Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Pour : 	plenary at wsis-cs.org, discuss at un-gaid.org

_______________________________________

Dear colleagues,

I shall report on the critical situation of the Digital Solidarity 
Fund (DSF) in my quality of Latin America & Caribbbean civil society 
member of the Board. I wish to report in the WSIS civil society 
plenary list as well as in G at ID discussion list, in the hope to 
trigger some positive dynamics in both communities (and I am also 
informing the DSF Board of that initiative).

The last couple of months have been of acute crisis after a change in 
the DSF Presidency and coordinated complains from the new DSF 
President and the

 President
 of Senegal (speaking as "historical 
father") on General Secretary management: basically they do not trust 
the 1% principle could be effective and wish a centering and hosting 
of the DSF on Africa, as an ICT4D project management organization.

On November 25th a stormy General Assembly was held in Lyon (France) 
and was unable to reach consensus on further steps. An extraordinary 
Assembly was then scheduled in Bamako, January 27th, 2009. More 
confused than stormy this Assembly decided that a strategical and 
finance independant audit shall be organized and its results 
presented to a last extraordinary Assembly to be scheduled prior to 
May 27th. This last Assembly would finally decide on the proposition 
of the President of Senegal to take over the management of the DSF 
(he was also given the responsibility to contract this audit and 
manage the interim period).

The investment made
 so
 far has
 reached some 6 millions of euros (a 
substantial part coming from developing countries) and one of the 
argument for not letting go the situation was the responsibility to 
protect that invested capital (which is no more in cash but hopefully 
some part has transformed into people and project experiences and 
institutional moves). Furthermore, it appears that the cashflow would 
allow to stand until the next Assembly but no more.

The situation as of today is that the audit has apparently not been 
launched and the risk is extremely high, due to the shortness of 
cashflow, that the DSF will just fade out without any decision taken 
and no audit results presented. This could be the worst scenario for 
one of the most concrete products the WSIS process has tried to 
launch and a shameful situation for our ICT4D community in regard to 
the lost investment...

In that context, I want to call
 upon
 global civil
 society to put 
pressure on stakeholders in order to try to save whatever is possible 
from the disaster. I am wondering, given the particular situation, if 
the best approach would not be to try to convince a UN related structure to
take over the DSF, conduct an audit which appears a mandatory 
requirement (if only for accountability of public money invested!) 
and assess the situation, trying to preserve, as far as possible, the 
initial principles (multistakeholder global fund to overcome the 
digital divide based on innovative sources).

ITU, G at ID or UNDP (which has been out of that field for some years 
now) are possible options. I am not sure that any of them is eager to 
take over a project in such a difficult situation; what I am quite 
sure is that it is my duty as a civil society involved actor to 
alert, inform and contribute to the search for a solution (I shall 
also
 remember as
 a possible
 contribution that Agence de la 
Francophonie had offered during the DSF Board debates to take 
responsibility to contract an audit of the DSF... although it was 
decided to do it another way).

Daniel Pimienta
Networks & Development Foundation
http://funredes.org
Member of APC Network
As LA&C civil society member of the DSF Board

_______________________________________________
List-reseauafricanet mailing list
List-reseauafricanet at list.reseauafricanet.org
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From nyangkweagien at gmail.com  Thu Apr 16 11:09:03 2009
From: nyangkweagien at gmail.com (Nyangkwe Agien Aaron)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:09:03 +0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of
	disappearing: action required]
In-Reply-To: <329717.54289.qm@web24204.mail.ird.yahoo.com>
References: <329717.54289.qm@web24204.mail.ird.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <a6bc8cb30904160309n6c24150fu918c730713f42bf5@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all

Let us hope that the FSN will not be another Darfour. One cannot understand
the dilly dallying in auditing the accounts of the structure. Was FSN a give
away to wade off an undesirable? Reading tha analysis of the situation
presented so far, makes me to believe so.

Aaron


On 4/16/09, NANA Delphine <delynana2002 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
> Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
> Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of
> this message!
> _______________________________________
>
>
>
>    Chers Tous,
>
> Je remercie le coll?gue Daniel Pimienta d'avoir port? le sujet ? votre
> attention .  Nous avons essay? d'?changer sur le sujet dans un cadre
> restreint, dans l'espoir de voir le processus avanc? tel qu'il avait ?t?
> d?cid? ? la r?union de Bamako, r?union ? laquelle nous avons particip? tous
> les deux en tant que soci?t? civile d'Am?rique Latine et africaine.
> N?anmoins, la Soci?t? Civile Africaine pour la Soci?t? de l'Information (
> ACSIS), membre fondateur du FSN est tr?s pr?occup?e  . Nous avons sign?, il
> ya quelque temps un MoU avec le FSN relatif au principe de 1% de solidarit?
> num?rique; dans certains pays d'afrique, ce principe a d?j?  ?t? vot? au
> Parlement, d'autres pays d'afrique  sont  en pleine n?gociation pour
> instaurer ce m?me principe . Il serait triste de voir le FSN qui a impuls?
> une telle dynamique mourir
> Nous restons tr?s solidaires ? toutes  les initiatives qui oeuvreraient
> pour sauver le FSN
>
> Sinc?re collaboration
>
> *Delphine NANA MEKOUNTE*
>
>    - Membre Fondateur et Pr?sidente  ACSIS (African Civil Society for the
>    Information Society) Network on ICT4D www.acsis-africa.org
>    - Directrice G?n?rale du CEFEPROD, Organisation dot?e du Statut
>    Consultatif Sp?cial aupr?s  du Conseil Economique et Social des Nations
>    Unies  (ECOSOC.) www.cefeprod.org
>    - Member Champions Network-UN-GAID www.un-gaid.org
>    - BP. 8376. T?l. (+ 237) 99 99 86 16
>
>  *        **YAOUNDE-CAMEROUN** *
>
>
>
>
>
> --- En date de : *Mer 15.4.09, Lohento <lohento at oridev.org>* a ?crit :
>
> De: Lohento <lohento at oridev.org>
> Objet: [Africa_Net] [Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk
> of disappearing: action required]
> ?: "africa_net" <africa_net at reseauafricanet.org>
> Date: Mercredi 15 Avril 2009, 8h06
>
> Voir ci-dessous - Vers la disparition du fonds de solidarit? num?rique?
> Apparemment l'audit qui devait ?tre r?alis? pour mai n'a pas encore
> ?t?
> effectu? et certains craignent qu'on n'aboutisse finalement ? la mort
> de
> cette institution qui, quel que soit ce qui peut en ?tre dit, est le
> r?sultat international le plus concret du SMSI pour les pays en
> d?veloppement.
>
> Ken L
> -------- Message original --------
> Sujet : 	[WSIS
>
>
>
>  CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of
> disappearing: action required
> Date : 	Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:41:03 -0400
> De : 	Daniel Pimienta <pimienta at funredes.org>
> R?pondre ? : 	Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
> Pour : 	plenary at wsis-cs.org, discuss at un-gaid.org
>
> _______________________________________
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I shall report on the critical situation of the Digital Solidarity
> Fund (DSF) in my quality of Latin America & Caribbbean civil society
> member of the Board. I wish to report in the WSIS civil society
> plenary list as well as in G at ID discussion list, in the hope to
> trigger some positive dynamics in both communities (and I am also
> informing the DSF Board of that initiative).
>
> The last couple of months have been of acute crisis after a change in
> the DSF Presidency and coordinated complains from the new DSF
> President and the
>
>
>  President
>  of Senegal (speaking as "historical
> father") on General Secretary management: basically they do not trust
> the 1% principle could be effective and wish a centering and hosting
> of the DSF on Africa, as an ICT4D project management organization.
>
> On November 25th a stormy General Assembly was held in Lyon (France)
> and was unable to reach consensus on further steps. An extraordinary
> Assembly was then scheduled in Bamako, January 27th, 2009. More
> confused than stormy this Assembly decided that a strategical and
> finance independant audit shall be organized and its results
> presented to a last extraordinary Assembly to be scheduled prior to
> May 27th. This last Assembly would finally decide on the proposition
> of the President of Senegal to take over the management of the DSF
> (he was also given the responsibility to contract this audit and
> manage the interim period).
>
> The investment made
>
>  so
>  far has
>  reached some 6 millions of euros (a
> substantial part coming from developing countries) and one of the
> argument for not letting go the situation was the responsibility to
> protect that invested capital (which is no more in cash but hopefully
> some part has transformed into people and project experiences and
> institutional moves). Furthermore, it appears that the cashflow would
> allow to stand until the next Assembly but no more.
>
> The situation as of today is that the audit has apparently not been
> launched and the risk is extremely high, due to the shortness of
> cashflow, that the DSF will just fade out without any decision taken
> and no audit results presented. This could be the worst scenario for
> one of the most concrete products the WSIS process has tried to
> launch and a shameful situation for our ICT4D community in regard to
> the lost investment...
>
> In that context, I want to
>  call
>  upon
>  global civil
>  society to put
> pressure on stakeholders in order to try to save whatever is possible
> from the disaster. I am wondering, given the particular situation, if
> the best approach would not be to try to convince a UN related structure to
> take over the DSF, conduct an audit which appears a mandatory
> requirement (if only for accountability of public money invested!)
> and assess the situation, trying to preserve, as far as possible, the
> initial principles (multistakeholder global fund to overcome the
> digital divide based on innovative sources).
>
> ITU, G at ID or UNDP (which has been out of that field for some years
> now) are possible options. I am not sure that any of them is eager to
> take over a project in such a difficult situation; what I am quite
> sure is that it is my duty as a civil society involved actor to
> alert, inform and contribute to the search for a solution (I shall
>
> also
>  remember as
>  a possible
>  contribution that Agence de la
> Francophonie had offered during the DSF Board debates to take
> responsibility to contract an audit of the DSF... although it was
> decided to do it another way).
>
> Daniel Pimienta
> Networks & Development Foundation
> http://funredes.org
> Member of APC Network
> As LA&C civil society member of the DSF Board
>
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From: chekib_dhaouadi at yahoo.fr (Chekib Dhaouadi)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:00:51 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Tr : [contre_tajrid] Actions Gaza pour briser le
	blocus : A diffuser dans toutes vos listes. Merci
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Objet: Actions Gaza pour briser le blocus : A diffuser dans toutes vos listes. Merci
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Date: Samedi 11 Avril 2009, 17h52


Actions Gaza pour briser le blocus :?A diffuser dans toutes vos listes. Merci?


USA - 10-04-2009  22 Jours pour Lever le Si?ge de Gaza 
Par CODEPINK 
? 
 
Du 22 Mai au 14 Juin, des d?l?gations se rassembleront ? la fronti?re de Rafah en ?gypte et au passage d'Eretz en Isra?l, avec ?galement des bateaux en provenance de la M?diterran?e (via www.freegaza.org). Nous envelopperons Gaza de solidarit?, afin de lever le si?ge. 
Lire la suite :ICI
 


________________________________

Si vous avez une camionnette, un autobus ou n?importe quel v?hicule, et si vous voulez aller ? Gaza, c?est le moment ! Saisissez cette opportunit? et rejoignez-nous.

Le convoi devrait quitter Milan aussit?t apr?s la 7?me Conf?rence des Palestiniens vivant en Europe. Un nombre consid?rable de militants, de responsables et de d?put?s europ?ens y participeront.

Ceux qui veulent nous rejoindre devront venir avec leur v?hicule ? Milan. Le convoi quittera Milan le 3 mai et prendra la mer ? G?nes pour se rendre ? Alexandrie, en Egypte.

Les camions d?barqueront ? Alexandrie 3 jours plus tard d?o? ils partiront directement pour Gaza.

Un espoir pour Gaza : un convoi de plus de 100 camions de m?dicaments et de nourriture bient?t ? Gaza 
Par Campagne Europ?enne pour Briser le Si?ge de Gaza 
?  
 
Il est temps de bouger : la Campagne europ?enne pour mettre fin au si?ge de Gaza (ECESG) va envoyer un gros convoi de plus de 100 camions.
Le convoi partira d?but mai, depuis de nombreux pays europ?ens comme la Grande-Bretagne, la France, l?Irlande, l?Ecosse, le Danemark, les Pays-Bas, la Su?de, l?Espagne, l?Allemagne, l?Italie, l?Autriche et la Norv?ge.   


















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Viva Palestina Etats-Unis : ?Nous avons pour objectif de r?unir 10 millions de dollars en aide et 500 v?hicules pour Gaza 
Par Viva Palestina 
?USA - 09-04-2009 
 
Fort de la r?ussite du convoi d?aide de Viva Palestina qui a amen? plus de 100 v?hicules de Grande-Bretagne dans la bande de Gaza, le d?put? George Galloway s'est associ? ? la tourn?e am?ricaine du pacifiste et ancien combattant du Vietnam, Ron Kovic, pour lancer une entreprise similaire mais encore plus grande depuis les ?tats-Unis.  
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From ceo at bnnrc.net  Sat Apr 18 12:16:56 2009
From: ceo at bnnrc.net (AHM Bazlur Rahman)
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:16:56 +0600
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Community Radio Handbook @ the speaker of
	Bangladesh Parliament
Message-ID: <011d01c9c017$30993ea0$1101a8c0@ceo>

 
Community Radio Handbook @ the speaker of Bangladesh Parliament

 
The speaker of Bangladesh Parliament, Advocate Abdul Hamid, was formally given a Community Radio Handbook on Good Governance and Development on 6 April 2009 on behalf of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC). This Community Radio Handbook on Good Governance and Development supported by DFID- Bangladesh.

At the time of handing over the handbook, the Chief Executive Officer of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC), AHM Bazlur Rahman briefed the honorable speaker concerning the latest process of Community Radio approval in Bangladesh. 

He was requested to start an FM Radio Channel named Bangladesh Parliament FM Radio with the endeavor of parliament in order to establish a direct communication in the midst of parliament and common mass and enhance awareness amongst people regarding parliament. The speaker listened to the Community Radio issue with rapt attention and thanked the organizers for publishing the handbook.

Community Radio Movement Adviser, Dr. Akram Hossain Chowdhury MP, was also present at that moment.



Bazlu
_______________________
AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
Chief Executive Officer
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication(BNNRC)
&
Member, Strategy Council
UN-Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID)
 
House: 13/1, Road:2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207 
Post Box: 5095, Dhaka 1205 Bangladesh
 
Phone: 88-02-9130750, 88-02-9138501
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From jaroslaw.ponder at itu.int  Wed Apr 15 13:30:33 2009
From: jaroslaw.ponder at itu.int (jaroslaw.ponder at itu.int)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:30:33 +0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of
	disappearing: action required
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Dear Colleagues,

 

Thank you very much Charles for bringing this possibility to the
attention. Indeed, format of the WSIS Forum 2009 does give the
possibility of having kickoff meetings as well as side events. In case
you would be interested in organizing kick off meeting (10 people max)
we will arrange room for you. If possible please fill in attached form
and send it to me. 

 

There is always a possibility of having a dedicated special session to
be held on 21 May 2009, the day dedicated to the thematic
workshops/sessions. The capacity of the available rooms is up to 100. 

 

In case you would need any further information regarding the meeting
please do not hesitate to let me know. 

 

http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/2009/forum/geneva/index.html 

 

With kind regards, 

 

Jaroslaw K. PONDER
----------------------------------------------------------
Strategy and Policy Coordinator
International Telecommunication Union
Place des Nations
1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
Tel.: 00 41 22 730 6065
Fax.: 00 41 22 733 7256
E-mail: Jaroslaw.Ponder at itu.int <mailto:Jaroslaw.Ponder at itu.int>      
Web: http://www.itu.int/csd <http://www.itu.int/csd>  
 



 

________________________________

From: Charles Geiger [mailto:Charles.Geiger at unctad.org] 
Sent: mercredi, 15. avril 2009 12:28
To: Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space
Cc: discuss at un-gaid.org; plenary at wsis-cs.org;
plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org; Ponder, Jaroslaw
Subject: Fw: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of
disappearing: action required

 


Dear all 

With reference to the last para below, I would like to inform you that
short private meetings or short parallel meetings can take place during
the WSIS Forum, depending on room availablilty. If your organization
would need a room for such a meeting, please contact
jaroslaw.ponder at itu.int . 

Charles Geiger 



----- Forwarded by Charles Geiger/UNCTAD/GVA/UNO on 15.04.2009 12:22
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Charles Geiger/UNCTAD/GVA/UNO 

15.04.2009 12:03 

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action requiredLink
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Dear Daniel 

Thanks for this note to the WSIS Plenary Group. 

Let us be clear: The DSF was not created by WSIS. The idea of a DSF (the
basic idea came from the President of Senegal) did not fly during WSIS
2003 in Geneva. Governments did not want to create a new and
administration-heavy intergovernmental fund.  Therefore the DSF was
created in a parallel process to WSIS by a group of persons from Geneva
(+ President Wade). One of the main mistakes was to create this as a
private foundation, located in Geneva, with an administration that paid
Swiss salaries and in Swiss francs (= very expensive). 

Over the years, the Secretariat has spent a lot of money on
administration and on making the 1% Digital Solidarity Principle known,
but without big success. 

Maybe the possible death of the DSF could open up the way for something
more feasible, e.g. an international network of civil society entities
focusing on democratic participation (+ right to Information), free flow
of information, and equitable and affordable access to ICTs for remote
and marginalized populations. 

These kind of networks exist locally in some countries, e.g. the BNNRC
in Bangladesh. Maybe several such initiatives could get together and
form an international network, and maybe APC would be interested to act
as Secretariat. I don't know, it is just an idea, but it could be
discussed during the WSIS Forum in May, in a parallel event. 

Best regards 

Charles   






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Dear colleagues,

I shall report on the critical situation of the Digital Solidarity 
Fund (DSF) in my quality of Latin America & Caribbbean civil society 
member of the Board. I wish to report in the WSIS civil society 
plenary list as well as in G at ID discussion list, in the hope to 
trigger some positive dynamics in both communities (and I am also 
informing the DSF Board of that initiative).

The last couple of months have been of acute crisis after a change in 
the DSF Presidency and coordinated complains from the new DSF 
President and the President of Senegal (speaking as "historical 
father") on General Secretary management: basically they do not trust 
the 1% principle could be effective and wish a centering and hosting 
of the DSF on Africa, as an ICT4D project management organization.

On November 25th a stormy General Assembly was held in Lyon (France) 
and was unable to reach consensus on further steps. An extraordinary 
Assembly was then scheduled in Bamako, January 27th, 2009. More 
confused than stormy this Assembly decided that a strategical and 
finance independant audit shall be organized and its results 
presented to a last extraordinary Assembly to be scheduled prior to 
May 27th. This last Assembly would finally decide on the proposition 
of the President of Senegal to take over the management of the DSF 
(he was also given the responsibility to contract this audit and 
manage the interim period).

The investment made so far has reached some 6 millions of euros (a 
substantial part coming from developing countries) and one of the 
argument for not letting go the situation was the responsibility to 
protect that invested capital (which is no more in cash but hopefully 
some part has transformed into people and project experiences and 
institutional moves). Furthermore, it appears that the cashflow would 
allow to stand until the next Assembly but no more.

The situation as of today is that the audit has apparently not been 
launched and the risk is extremely high, due to the shortness of 
cashflow, that the DSF will just fade out without any decision taken 
and no audit results presented. This could be the worst scenario for 
one of the most concrete products the WSIS process has tried to 
launch and a shameful situation for our ICT4D community in regard to 
the lost investment...

In that context, I want to call upon global civil society to put 
pressure on stakeholders in order to try to save whatever is possible 
from the disaster. I am wondering, given the particular situation, if 
the best approach would not be to try to convince a UN related structure
to
take over the DSF, conduct an audit which appears a mandatory 
requirement (if only for accountability of public money invested!) 
and assess the situation, trying to preserve, as far as possible, the 
initial principles (multistakeholder global fund to overcome the 
digital divide based on innovative sources).

ITU, G at ID or UNDP (which has been out of that field for some years 
now) are possible options. I am not sure that any of them is eager to 
take over a project in such a difficult situation; what I am quite 
sure is that it is my duty as a civil society involved actor to 
alert, inform and contribute to the search for a solution (I shall 
also remember as a possible contribution that Agence de la 
Francophonie had offered during the DSF Board debates to take 
responsibility to contract an audit of the DSF... although it was 
decided to do it another way).

Daniel Pimienta
Networks & Development Foundation
http://funredes.org
Member of APC Network
As LA&C civil society member of the DSF Board

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From muguet at wtis.org  Wed Apr 15 09:53:13 2009
From: muguet at wtis.org (Dr. Francis MUGUET)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:53:13 +0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of
 disappearing: action required
In-Reply-To: <200904132145.n3DLj6iX011200@funredes.org>
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Message-ID: <49E5A079.7080808@wtis.org>

Dear Daniel

The DSF is dead.
It had a serious birth defect
the legal basis of its main financial mechanism was wrong...
To force a supplier to "donate" to a third party, in the context
of a purchase, is called "racket", and  for whatever goof reason this
donation is made. 
During WSIS, I warned about.  a swiss DSF proponent
told me that a legal study has been made...
for the city of Geneva.... it turns out that it is one of the few city
in the world that there is a legal hole agains racket....

the overexpenditure of the DSF staff has added to the problem...
to the point of creating a mini-scandal
and now there is a lack of credibility
and confidence....

better dissolve the current DSF, to start a completely new one,
transparent from the onset, with a new financial supporting
mechanism.

This could be discussed, and there is a CSTD recommandation
that would allow that.

I would call that the real emergency is the recommendation
that the CSTD has adopted last May... after the long work
of the WSIS-Finance group
tp://www.wsis-finance.org/

The CSTD <http://www.wsis-finance.org/cstd.html> has adopted a 
recommendation in May 2008 :
*/ 32. Recommends that UNGIS organize focused open multistakeholder 
consultations on the implementation of part B of the Tunis Agenda " 
Financial Mechanisms for Meeting the Challenges of ICTs for Development"; /*

Jean-Louis Fullsack has not been allowed to assist to the last UNGIS 
meeting.

What are they doing at UNGIS ?

Best

Francis

> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list. Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
> Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of this message!
> _______________________________________
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I shall report on the critical situation of the Digital Solidarity 
> Fund (DSF) in my quality of Latin America & Caribbbean civil society 
> member of the Board. I wish to report in the WSIS civil society 
> plenary list as well as in G at ID discussion list, in the hope to 
> trigger some positive dynamics in both communities (and I am also 
> informing the DSF Board of that initiative).
>
> The last couple of months have been of acute crisis after a change in 
> the DSF Presidency and coordinated complains from the new DSF 
> President and the President of Senegal (speaking as "historical 
> father") on General Secretary management: basically they do not trust 
> the 1% principle could be effective and wish a centering and hosting 
> of the DSF on Africa, as an ICT4D project management organization.
>
> On November 25th a stormy General Assembly was held in Lyon (France) 
> and was unable to reach consensus on further steps. An extraordinary 
> Assembly was then scheduled in Bamako, January 27th, 2009. More 
> confused than stormy this Assembly decided that a strategical and 
> finance independant audit shall be organized and its results 
> presented to a last extraordinary Assembly to be scheduled prior to 
> May 27th. This last Assembly would finally decide on the proposition 
> of the President of Senegal to take over the management of the DSF 
> (he was also given the responsibility to contract this audit and 
> manage the interim period).
>
> The investment made so far has reached some 6 millions of euros (a 
> substantial part coming from developing countries) and one of the 
> argument for not letting go the situation was the responsibility to 
> protect that invested capital (which is no more in cash but hopefully 
> some part has transformed into people and project experiences and 
> institutional moves). Furthermore, it appears that the cashflow would 
> allow to stand until the next Assembly but no more.
>
> The situation as of today is that the audit has apparently not been 
> launched and the risk is extremely high, due to the shortness of 
> cashflow, that the DSF will just fade out without any decision taken 
> and no audit results presented. This could be the worst scenario for 
> one of the most concrete products the WSIS process has tried to 
> launch and a shameful situation for our ICT4D community in regard to 
> the lost investment...
>
> In that context, I want to call upon global civil society to put 
> pressure on stakeholders in order to try to save whatever is possible 
> from the disaster. I am wondering, given the particular situation, if 
> the best approach would not be to try to convince a UN related structure to
> take over the DSF, conduct an audit which appears a mandatory 
> requirement (if only for accountability of public money invested!) 
> and assess the situation, trying to preserve, as far as possible, the 
> initial principles (multistakeholder global fund to overcome the 
> digital divide based on innovative sources).
>
> ITU, G at ID or UNDP (which has been out of that field for some years 
> now) are possible options. I am not sure that any of them is eager to 
> take over a project in such a difficult situation; what I am quite 
> sure is that it is my duty as a civil society involved actor to 
> alert, inform and contribute to the search for a solution (I shall 
> also remember as a possible contribution that Agence de la 
> Francophonie had offered during the DSF Board debates to take 
> responsibility to contract an audit of the DSF... although it was 
> decided to do it another way).
>
> Daniel Pimienta
> Networks & Development Foundation
> http://funredes.org
> Member of APC Network
> As LA&C civil society member of the DSF Board
>
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary at wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>
>   


-- 

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Francis F. Ph.D  MUGUET KNIS/ENSTA 

P?le de D?veloppement pour l'Information Scientifique
"R?seaux de la Connaissance et Soci?t? de l'Information"
Scientific Information Development Laboratory
"Knowledge Networks & Information Society" (KNIS)

ENSTA/KNIS  http://knis.org
32 Blvd Victor 75739 PARIS cedex FRANCE 
Phone: (33)1 45 52 60 19  Fax: (33)1 45 52 52 82 
muguet at ensta.fr   http://www.ensta.fr/~muguet 

PC4D : http://www.pc4d.org

MDPI Foundation Open Access Journals
http://www.mdpi.org   http://www.mdpi.net 
muguet at mdpi.org       muguet at mdpi.net 

World Summit On the Information Society (WSIS)
Civil Society Working Groups
Scientific Information :  http://www.wsis-si.org  chair 
Patents & Copyrights   :  http://www.wsis-pct.org co-chair
Financing Mechanismns  :  http://www.wsis-finance.org web
Info. Net. Govermance  :  http://www.wsis-gov.org  web

NET4D : http://www.net4D.org 
UNMSP : http://www.unmsp.org 
WTIS : http://www.wtis.org   REUSSI : http://www.reussi.org
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-- 

------------------------------------------------------ 
Francis F. MUGUET  Ph.D
World Tour of the Information Society (WTIS)
muguet at wtis.org   http://wtis.org http://wtis.tv
REUSSI : http://reussi.org

KNIS/ENSTA    http://knis.org
32 Blvd Victor 75739 PARIS cedex FRANCE 
Phone: (33)1 45 52 60 19  Fax: (33)1 45 52 52 82 
muguet at ensta.fr   http://www.ensta.fr/~muguet 

PC4D : http://www.pc4d.org

MDPI Foundation Open Access Journals
http://www.mdpi.org   http://www.mdpi.net 
muguet at mdpi.org       muguet at mdpi.net 

World Summit On the Information Society (WSIS)
Civil Society Working Groups
Scientific Information :  http://www.wsis-si.org  chair 
Patents & Copyrights   :  http://www.wsis-pct.org co-chair
Financing Mechanismns  :  http://www.wsis-finance.org web
Info. Net. Govermance  :  http://www.wsis-gov.org  web

NET4D : http://www.net4D.org 
UNMSP : http://www.unmsp.org 
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From info at blumail.org  Fri Apr 17 09:54:29 2009
From: info at blumail.org (BluMail Info)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:54:29 -0400
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Regarding Digital Solidarity Fund's Risk of
	Disappearing
Message-ID: <47d3f4060904170154w1f448715oddeb4682c1d926c8@mail.gmail.com>

I agree with Darian Rodriguez Heyman about the importance of reaching out to
the David and Lucile Packard Foundation as well as to other tech-based
foundations to seek their input, commitment and funding for a new fund that
addresses 21st Century concerns.  Perhaps GAID could plan a conference in
Silicon Valley involving country donors, tech firms and foundations, NGOs,
and UN organizations to scope out the vision, funding priorities, mission,
and strategy of a new fund.
Having worked with several donor countries who may welcome the opportunity
to provide input before being approached for funding, I might suggest
inviting prospective donors from Austria, Belgium,
Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands,
Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, and US.  Happy to provide
their contact information.

And we just facilitated a delegation of USAID and NGO representatives to
meet with Silicon Valley firms, VC funds, and foundations where in just a
matter of a few weeks, truly innovative partnerships are emerging.  If there
is interest in coordinating some kind of conference, I'm happy to provide
contact information for Apple, Case Foundation, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Flora
Family Foundation, Ford Foundation, Global Catalyst Foundation, Google, HP,
IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Omidyar Network, Salesforce.com, Skoll Foundation,
Sun and others.

Having raised funds from donors, foundations, and through global donation
campaigns through the years, I think with a little coordinated
effort,millions could be raised to start addressing the tech for development
issues that, if tackled, can truly bring global connection, connectivity,
education, equipment, and policy change for all.

All the best and regards,
Sarah

Sarah McCue, Ph.D.
Founder and Board Chair, BluMail
Former Senior Tech Partnership Advisor, World Bank
Former Manager, ICT for Development Practice, UNDP

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Darian Rodriguez Heyman <
darian at darianheyman.com> wrote:

Charles,

For what it's worth, I've done fundraising for similar initiatives when I
was at Craigslist Foundation.  It may not be easy, but it is possible,
especially if it can be shown that there's a demonstrable need/impact, and
that we would be filling a unique role.  The David and Lucile Packard
Foundation would be the place I'd start, and I have a contact there who
heads up their new Network Effectiveness program.  Happy to talk further if
appropriate, and will be available to talk after my return on April 26th if
that'd be helpful.

In Community,
Darian
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On Apr 15, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Michael Gurstein wrote:

Charles,

Your suggestion re: a global civil society ICT4D network is a very good one
and moreover is one where there has already been considerable discussion.
Also, there are a variety of networks at the national and even global level
that would usefully be part of such a global body... (several of them now
function in a somewhat similar role).

The problem from my experience with these efforts is that there is little
funding available for the establishment and maintenance of these networks.
Funders are interested mostly in one off projects and rarely will provide
"establishment/overhead" funding.

Even though these networks can function largely electronically they still
require maintenance and development which requires attention and effort
which in turn require resources.

The more active these networks become i.e. the more they actually engage in
doing things on the ground rather than simply functioning as discussion
vehicles/e-lists/websites the more such funding is required and as is
clearly visible in this area as in others, "he who pays the piper...

I don't mean to completely discourage such an effort and particularly one
that might function under UN (or other officially sanctioned auspices) but
simply to introduce a bit of caution into the discussion. Thinking through a
funding  (for example a UN trust fund) and governance model in advance might
save a lot of difficulties down the road.

Best,

MBG
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From ceo at bnnrc.net  Sat Apr 18 16:20:38 2009
From: ceo at bnnrc.net (AHM Bazlur Rahman)
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:20:38 +0600
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Annual Meetings of the Global Alliance for ICT
	and Development (UNDESA-GAID) 2009
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      Annual Meetings of the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UNDESA-UN GAID) 2009:
      GAID Global Forum 2009: ICT & Innovation for Education
      


      On 10-12 June 2009, Ministers, policymakers, business leaders, and innovators in the field of information and communication technologies for development from  around the world will converge in Monterrey, Mexico for the Annual Meetings of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UNDESA-GAID). 

      The Annual Meetings will be jointly organized by GAID, the Government of Mexico, and Indigo Media. The Global Alliance for ICT and Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs is the principal platform within the United Nations system for policy dialogue and collaborative partnerships among all stakeholders on the strategic use of ICT for achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). 

      The event in Monterrey will bring together IT leaders and the development community under the umbrella of the Global Alliance for a focused dialogue on emerging issues and challenges in the field of ICT for development, particularly in the areas of Education and Innovation, and foster cooperation among governments, private sector and civil society. 


      Key Components of the Monterrey Event : The 3-day meeting in Monterrey will be comprised of the following key sessions: 

        a.. 4th Meeting of the GAID Strategy Council 
        b.. 7th Meeting of the GAID Steering Committee 
        c.. Global Forum on ICT and Innovation for Education 
        d.. i-MarketSpace 
        e.. World Summit Awards (WSA) Gala 
        f.. Side-Events 
     

For more information and registration: http://www.un-gaid.org/tabid/1048//Default.aspx


Bazlu
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